"The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on."

“There’s this thing called progress. But it doesn’t progress. It doesn’t go anywhere. Because as progress progresses the world can slip away. It’s progress if you can stop the world slipping away. My humble model for progress I the reclamation of land. Which is repeatedly, never-ending retrieving what it lost. A dogged and vigilant business. A dull yet valuable business. A hard, inglorious business. But you shouldn’t go mistaking the reclamation of land for the building of empires.”

“I don't consider myself to have a style or anything, I just do what I like to do and I try to do it best!”

“That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned.”

Source : "The Wondrous Dr. J". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

“I love playing characters that are bigger than life and maybe have a darker side that they present to the world. Those are good characters.”

“Owning a TVR in the past was like owning a bear. I mean it was great, until it pulled your head off, which it would.”

“I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man.”

Source : Joshua Slocum, Applewood Books (CRT) (2006). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.193, Applewood Books

“I find myself moved by man in his new violent environment. I want to paint this explicitly and beautifully.”

“I grew up with my older brother listening to hip hop, and Jay-Z was the main person I listened to. When it comes to his word play, he's just out of this world. That's my biggest inspiration when it comes to writing lyrics.”